Transportation

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Highway, rail and aviation systems are vital to the national and global economy. They move our citizens and our products and they allow us to be more productive – but they can also contribute to sprawl, air pollution and global warming. Brookings experts look at how to most productively invest in our transportation infrastructure.

REUTERS/Billy Weeks - Volkswagen employees inspect an 2012 Passat in the assembly finish department in Chattanooga, Tennessee, December 1, 2011.

Blog Post | Advanced Industries Series

Keeping Tennessee Auto and Advanced Industries Competitive

October 4, 2013, Mark Muro

Five years after the Great Recession, a leaner and more intensely competitive auto sector is growing under new conditions. Tennessee's industry has emerged from a tumultuous decade with genuine momentum, and it now confronts continuous disruptive change and will need to recalibrate.

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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects
Volume 3

2010, Hal Wolman, Howard Wial and Nancy Pindus, eds.
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Last Exit
Privatization and Deregulation of the U.S. Transportation System

2010, Clifford Winston
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Plug-In Electric Vehicles
What Role for Washington?

2009, David B. Sandalow, ed.
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Aviation Infrastructure Performance
A Study in Comparative Political Economy

2008, Clifford Winston and Gines de Rus, eds.
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Alternate Route
Toward Efficient Urban Transportation

1998, Chad Shirley and Clifford Winston
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The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation

1990, Carol A. Evans, Clifford Winston, Curtis Grimm and Thomas M. Corsi
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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1989

1989, Clifford Winston and Martin Neil Baily, eds.